| Game |
| Result | Moves |
Year | Event/Locale | Opening |
| 1. S Boden vs W Evelyn |
| 1-0 | 29 | 1859 | Casual game | C61 Ruy Lopez, Bird's Defense |
| 2. C H Schultz vs Bernard Rice |
| 1-0 | 26 | 1860 | New York CC - Brooklyn CC | C61 Ruy Lopez, Bird's Defense |
| 3. G Vogt vs A Ascharin |
| 1-0 | 44 | 1865 | Dorpat Chess Club | C61 Ruy Lopez, Bird's Defense |
| 4. C De Vere vs Bird |
 | 1-0 | 43 | 1866 | 6th BCA Congress, 1st Challenge Cup, London | C61 Ruy Lopez, Bird's Defense |
| 5. Winawer vs C De Vere |
 | 1-0 | 21 | 1867 | Paris | C61 Ruy Lopez, Bird's Defense |
| 6. R Wormald vs Bird |
| 1-0 | 19 | 1869 | 8th BCA Congress, 2nd Challenge Cup, London 1868/69 | C61 Ruy Lopez, Bird's Defense |
| 7. G MacDonnell vs Bird |
| 1-0 | 19 | 1869 | 8th BCA Congress, 2nd Challenge Cup, London 1868/69 | C61 Ruy Lopez, Bird's Defense |
| 8. J Wisker vs Bird |
| 1-0 | 27 | 1873 | London m4 | C61 Ruy Lopez, Bird's Defense |
| 9. J Wisker vs Bird |
| 1-0 | 43 | 1873 | London m1 | C61 Ruy Lopez, Bird's Defense |
| 10. Anderssen vs Bird |
| 1-0 | 31 | 1873 | Vienna | C61 Ruy Lopez, Bird's Defense |
| 11. M Fleissig vs Blackburne |
| 1-0 | 33 | 1873 | Vienna | C61 Ruy Lopez, Bird's Defense |
| 12. C De Vere vs Bird |
| 1-0 | 18 | 1873 | City of London CC Handicap 1873/74 | C61 Ruy Lopez, Bird's Defense |
| 13. H Hosmer vs H Kennicott |
| 1-0 | 29 | 1874 | 3rd American Chess Congress, Chicago | C61 Ruy Lopez, Bird's Defense |
| 14. E Schallopp vs E Flechsig |
| 1-0 | 59 | 1877 | 3rd MSB Congress, Leipzig | C61 Ruy Lopez, Bird's Defense |
| 15. Winawer vs C Goering |
| 1-0 | 37 | 1877 | 3rd MSB Congress, Leipzig | C61 Ruy Lopez, Bird's Defense |
| 16. Anderssen vs W Paulsen |
| 1-0 | 52 | 1877 | 3rd MSB Congress, Leipzig | C61 Ruy Lopez, Bird's Defense |
| 17. Winawer vs Bird |
| 1-0 | 54 | 1878 | Paris | C61 Ruy Lopez, Bird's Defense |
| 18. Gaebler vs Bird |
| 1-0 | 41 | 1880 | Match | C61 Ruy Lopez, Bird's Defense |
| 19. J Minckwitz vs E Schallopp |
| 1-0 | 68 | 1880 | Graz | C61 Ruy Lopez, Bird's Defense |
| 20. Englisch vs Bird |
| 1-0 | 53 | 1882 | Vienna | C61 Ruy Lopez, Bird's Defense |
| 21. Englisch vs Winawer |
| 1-0 | 36 | 1883 | London | C61 Ruy Lopez, Bird's Defense |
| 22. Winawer vs Bird |
| 1-0 | 53 | 1883 | London | C61 Ruy Lopez, Bird's Defense |
| 23. Winawer vs Bird |
| 1-0 | 31 | 1883 | 3rd DSB Congress, Nuremberg | C61 Ruy Lopez, Bird's Defense |
| 24. E Schallopp vs Bird |
| 1-0 | 54 | 1883 | 3rd DSB Congress, Nuremberg | C61 Ruy Lopez, Bird's Defense |
| 25. W Wayte vs E Thorold |
| 1-0 | 37 | 1885 | Match | C61 Ruy Lopez, Bird's Defense |
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